ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,056, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Needforgap capability signaling in new radio" was invented by Ping Yuan (Beijing), Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland), Lars Dalsgaard (Oulu, Finland), Jing He (Beijing) and Amaanat Ali (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, a method comprises receiving, by a network node, a first level capability about measurement gap needed or not for a user equipment. The method further comprises transmitting, by the network node, a pre-configured measurement gap pattern, in response to the reported first level capability indicat...